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Eevee Is What Pokémon Is All About
The heart of what makes Pokémon games so enduring is the sense of adventure and self-discovery. Each game begins with its adolescent protagonist taking a rite of passage, their first voyage into the wider world as their own person. In their own ways, every Pokémon game is about finding yourself and establishing yourself in the…
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CultureThe Internet Reacts To Kanye West’s Bizarre New Video
Kanye West has a new song. It’s a lot. Kanye has been having a year. He’s dropped an album, said that slavery was a choice, said that he’d like to have sex with his sisters-in-law, was the creative director of the Pornhub Awards, and now has a video that’s taking the internet by storm. Let’s…
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SCUM, As Told By Steam Reviews
SCUM, a new survival game in early access, is taking Steam by storm. The people reviewing it simply cannot get enough of defecating on other players. Ever wanted to punch a man to death and then take a dump on them? In SCUM, you finally can! Seriously, the players of this game who are leaving…
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Fortnite Monopoly Replaces Boardwalk With Tilted Towers
Monopoly is a board game that regularly ends with you cursing out your family. In the upcoming Fortnite edition, which leaked earlier today and was later confirmed by Epic Games, at least you’ll be able to take them out until you’re the last one standing. The Fortnite edition of Monopoly was briefly available to pre-order…
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Three Years Later, We Finally Have A New Alphabear
Mobile word game Alphabear 2 is pretty much more of the same as the original. The great news is that it’s a lot more of it. The first Alphabear was like Boggle with bears. You try to make words out of the available tiles on the board to reach a high score. The board featured…
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CultureThe Internet Reacts To Henry Cavill Playing Geralt In Netflix’s The Witcher
Henry Cavill, the DC movie universe’s Superman, will be playing Geralt of Rivia in the upcoming Witcher television series, Netflix said today. Fan reactions have been mixed to horny. The Witcher has a devoted fanbase both in author Andrzej Sapkowski’s native Poland and abroad, so the series’ showrunners had a lot on the line with…
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Glitch Wikipedia Makes Article-Hopping Into A Game
Have you ever stayed up late at night, bouncing from article to article on Wikipedia? Perhaps it began as a cursory glance into the history of Power Rangers and, somehow, ended with you bleary eyed at 3 am reading about the Russian Revolution. Now you can still do that, but as a game. Unofficially, the…
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No Man’s Sky Has A New Atlas Full Of Player-Submitted Landmarks
Yesterday’s update for No Man’s Sky was huge. It fixed a myriad of lingering issues; players can now recover old saves and have new options to set whether or not other players can attack them. It also introduced some new features, including the long awaited Galactic Atlas The Galactic Atlas is a like community map.…
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D.Va’s Overwatch Short Sparks Theories About Her Love Life
Last week’s Overwatch short starred fan favorite character D.Va and revealed a little bit about her personality. It also gave Overwatch fans a new character to swoon over: her squadmate, D.Mon. Not much is known about D.Mon as a character, but that’s never stopped fans from getting attached to a character before, and this time…
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A YouTuber Is Collecting Every Time Team Rocket Has Blasted Off
Despite how many times they try, Team Rocket can never beat Ash in the Pokémon anime (except for this one time). Usually, they end up rocketing into the sky, shouting that they’ve “blasted off again!” One intrepid fan has done their best to catalogue each time Team Rocket has blasted off. It’s mesmerizing. YouTuber Preston…
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Popular Pokémon Fan Game Creation Tool Disappears After Nintendo Cracks Down
Pokémon Essentials, a robust resource for making Pokémon fan games, has been removed from the internet following a takedown notice from Nintendo. Losing this resource is a harsh setback for would-be makers of Pokémon fan games. Essentials takes the form of a file that works with the PC build-your-own-RPG game RPG Maker XP. But rather…
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The Sims Doesn’t Allow Teen Pregnancy, But Players Keep Making It Happen
In The Sims 4, there’s a feature that allows you to download Sims that other players have made. Looking for a hot guy for your Sim to hook up with? Head to the gallery and download one. Need a single mom with two cats and a dog? You can find one, as long as someone…
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Fortnite Streamers Make A Ninja Warrior Course
Fortnite not challenging enough for you? Some players upped the difficulty by adding a Ninja Warrior-esque obstacle course to the game. Ninja Warrior is a popular game show that originated in Japan before being adapted into a show in the US. It consists of a series of grueling obstacle courses that are vaguely ninja-themed. Contestants…
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The Gamescom Fortnite Pooper Story Didn’t Happen, Epic Says
Yesterday, the German website Playnation.de reported on a rumor that a Gamescom attendee defecated in a bag while waiting to play Fortnite. Today, the rumor circulated further on social media. Despite how badly we may want this to be true, according to Epic, it never happened. Sorry! According to Playnation.de’s article, other attendees stepped in…
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Developer Aims To Explore Female Sexuality With A Game That Lets You Bone ISIS To Death
Super Patriotic Dating Simulator, which is now on Kickstarter, is your typical romantic story of an elite spy infiltrating, seducing and then killing members of ISIS. Correction – 10:38am: The original version of this article misstated the beginning of this game’s Kickstarter campaign. Karlee Esmailli, who wrote and is developing the game, is an first…
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Shipping, Explained
Shipping, or the act of writing about, drawing or being enthusiastic about a particular fictional couple, has become a part of what it means to be a fan of something. It’s also older than you think. This post originally appeared 1/9/18. The Origins of Shipping The origin of shipping is often attributed to Star Trek…
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God Of War‘s New Game Plus Actually Does Feel Like A New Game
God of War’s New Game Plus mode doesn’t offer any radical spins on the game’s formula, but does reveal how much fun the game is when you’re given all the tools it offers you for all your beheadings and beatdowns. Kratos fans who want reasons to keep playing the new God of War have been…
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CultureThe Internet Reacts To Overwatch’s Animated Short About D.Va
After two years of waiting, Overwatch hero D.Va finally has her own animated short. While some people wish it gave a little more insight into her backstory, everyone can agree that D.Va is a selfless, precious angel who has never done anything wrong. Hana “D.Va” Song is an incredibly popular character, to the point of…
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No Man’s Sky Players Build Bases In Exchange For Charitable Donations
People have started civilizations, governments and police forces in No Man’s Sky. One player saw a different kind of business opportunity: a contracting company that builds bases for other users. In only a few days, his business has gotten so popular that he’s decided to donate some of the profits to charity. Martin Boid is…
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Cultist Simulator, As Told By Steam Reviews
As many reviewers on Steam will tell you, Cultist Simulator isn’t for everyone. But the people who love it really, really love it. Cultist Simulator is a resource management game about running a cult. It doesn’t give you much instruction or hold your hand through the process, but you can ascend to godhood eventually. Why…
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